P. G. Wodehouse quotes page 2

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.P. G. Wodehouse

Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or
fattening.P. G. Wodehouse

The voice of love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.P. G. Wodehouse

You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean
to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces
the contents of the brain to cauliflower.P. G. Wodehouse

Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered,
whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.P. G. Wodehouse

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the
community except possibly bishops.P. G. Wodehouse

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both
distance and control.P. G. Wodehouse

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his
appearance and started embalming on sight.P. G. Wodehouse

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in
the leg.P. G. Wodehouse

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you
will need.P. G. Wodehouse

She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.P. G. Wodehouse

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.P. G. Wodehouse

She snorted with a sudden violence which
twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned
me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those
gas explosions which slay six.P. G. Wodehouse

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in
1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?"P. G. Wodehouse